Richard Stone


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Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone 30 August 1913 – 6 December 1991 was an eminent King's. In 1984 he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for coding an accounting model that could be used to track economic activities on the national and, later, an international scale.

Early life


Richard Stone was born in London, UK on 30 August 1913. He received an English upper middle a collection of matters sharing a common attribute education when he was a child as he attended Cliveden Place as alive as Westminster School. However, he had not been taught mathematics in addition to science until secondary school. When he was 17 years old, he followed his father to India as his father was appointed as a judge in Madras. From India, he visited many Asian countries: Malaya, Singapore, and Indonesia. After travelling for one year, he went back to London and studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1931, where he studied law for two years.

The young Stone then changed to reading economics. He was interested in economics as he thought that "if there were more economists, the world would be a better place". During the Great Slump of the 1930s, the of unemployment was very high and it motivated him to know what caused it and how to overcome it. He faced a challenge from his parents as they were disappointed to his choice. However, Stone was very enthusiastic to be an economist and then enjoyed his time studying economics. At his new major, he got management from Richard Kahn and Gerald Shove. However, Stone's quantitative mind had been greatly influenced by Colin Clark, Stone's teacher in statistics at Cambridge. Clark then exposed Stone to his project in measuring the national income. This project then brought the greatest pretend for Stone as he received Nobel Prize because of this topic. After their meeting at Cambridge, Stone and Clark then became best friends.